CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 27 October 1896, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. It is reported that the Chinese Legation kidnapped in the streets of London Sem Yet Sen, a Chinese doctor, and leader of the conspiracy in Canton to depose the present Emperor and overthrow the Manchu dynasty. Sir H. Macartney, secretary of the Legation, denies that the doctor was inveigled or even enticed into the chamber, but was simply detained when h*3 voluntarily visited the Legation. Bern Yet Sen's friends, honrever, insist that he was seiz:-d and carried inside. Another aocount is that two Chinese, after conversation, were persuaded to visit the lodgings which the Embassy had secured ; also that application *was made to a Judge in Chambers, who deolared that he wai unable to interfere in the matter. Detectives are said to be on the watch day and night to prevent those detained being smuggled on board a vessel. The press generally refer in indignant terms to the matter, and call upon the Marquis of Salisbury to insist on the liberation of tho captured men. The Chinese, Snm Yet Sen, who was kidnapped by the Chinese Legation, was released by order of Lord Salisbury. The release was granted directly the Prime Minister demanded it. Sum Yot Sen states that two Chi nese officials accosted him outside the Chinese Legation and compelled Him to enter ; that they then locked him up on the top storey. Sir H. Macartney, be says, told him the ' Legation was equivalent to China, 1 and the Chinese' Ambassador offi- . cially informed him that he would , not have to apply for his (Sum Yel < San's) extradition. Sir H. Macartney said he would be bound in a bag and put in a box on a vessel whicb would carry him to China, where he , would be executed If the attempt ■ to smuggle him away failed, he would > be killed in tho Legation, embalmed | and sent to Pekin for " execution,' 1 for, though dead, the form of execution would be gone through. Fearing lhat attempts were being i made to poison him, Sum Yet Sen 1 nearly starved himself. [ Various attempts by him to bribe . the servants to inform his friends oi ; his position were repeatedly frustrated. He finally succeeded, howI ever, and through the publicity given 1 to his case in the newspapers be se* ' cured his release. The British officials regard the ■ affair as a monstrous abuse of the 1 privileges of the Legation. Sir H. Macartney considers thai | under the oiroumstanoes he was jus- , titled in detaining Sum Yet Sen, bul i deolares that there was no intention to torture him. It has since transpired that Sum [ Yet Sen bad been dogged for two : years. It is reported that the Queen will invite all the European rulers tc meet in London to celebrate the six* tieth auniversary of her reign. The Emperor William and the Czar have promised to be present, and President Faure is also likely to take part. The Daily News asserts that the result of the interview between Lord Salisbury and the Czar at Balmoral is that Great Britain, Russia and France have agreed on a basis ol policy with respect to China and Japan, and are arranging matters on Mediterranean questions. It is reported that France has recently invoked the help of Russia to resist the expected British annexation of Morocco. The last words written by the late Dr Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, on the day before his death, declare the Anglican Orders to be identical with those of the Roman Catholic Church, except in regard to subjection to the Pops. J. E. Beerbohm's •• Evening Corn Trade List " predicts that wheat is likely to be soon at 40a per quarter. New Zealand frozen meat and hemp quotations are not changed. The English wheat market shows a general advanoe of 6d ; while Continental and Amerioan are also advancing.